Fayette News

Alcorn State University officials say a traffic accident has claimed the life of freshman football player Ladarrius Adams.

' With gas prices at record highs - ' the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is approximately $3.78 - ' gas station clerk Jacqueline Champ sees her share of sad faces.

' On May 24, 1968, Lt. Col. Emmett Rucker Jr. was flying an aircraft fitted with a 1,000 gallon tank and spray bars on a defoliation mission in Vietnam.

“It is one of the last places you can live the old-fashioned American dream with white picket fences. I'm afraid we'll lose that.”

It shimmers atop the steeple of First Presbyterian Church like a solid-gold mirage: a 10-foot, 4-inch hand pointing at God. via The Clarion-Ledger

A memorial service for Anne Elizabeth Price Cox, 81, will be Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at the Chapel at First Baptist Church in Starkville, MS. via Cullman Times

“This isn't black against white. It's black and against black and white”

Attorneys for three incumbent Wilkinson County officials challenging election results want information from computers and the ballot box seals used in the Aug. via The Mississippi Press

Two of the state's top three high school girls basketball teams will match up Saturday evening in the Jefferson County Classic. via The Clarion-Ledger

FAYETTE, Miss. - Jefferson County Circuit Clerk Burnell Harris, who was sentenced to six years in federal prison for embezzlement, left office Friday. via Hattiesburg American

“He realized he made a mistake and he's very remorseful for what he had done, what had happened and we can't change what happened.”

Jefferson county circuit clerk Burnell Harris was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering. via WLBT-TV Jackson

“I have always tried to live my life as an honorable man.”

The lone lawyer convicted in a federal investigation of false diet drug settlement claims in Mississippi is going to prison for more than six years. via The Clarion-Ledger